The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The boundaries of Scotland em- brace 1S6 islands.
 London has police army of 13.- 849 men. The chief has a salary of S1O.5OO year.
 Speaking generally, the average length of life in England is forty-four years; the average length among the upper classes is fifty-three years. i -Steel-framed cabs are now being manufactured in England, with view , to lightness and greater durability than if wood were used for the pur- pose.
 pr. Barnardo's Homes in London now hold no fewer than two thousand poor boys and girls wholly dependent upon him; the most of whom would, but for their admission to these homes, have probably grown up to evil lives. More than ten thousand other misera- ble children have also been trained in these homes-BoSton Transcript
 The British telegraph service, which is part of the post-ofice, does not pay expenses since the rate was re- duced to sixpence per message, or about 12 cents The deficit for the past year was f223 900 on working ex- penses and G326, 900 for interest on the working capital-in all f550 900, or 2,750 GOO.
 In Algeria there is small stream which the chemistry of nature has con- verted into true. ink. It is formed by the union of two rivulets, one of which is very strongly lmpregnated with iron, while the other. meandering through a peat marsh, imbibes gallic acid, an- other ingredient in the formation of ink. Letters and other manuscript matters are satisfactorily written with this singular natural compound of iron and gallic acid.
 The English red-tape army and navy officials do queer things. Not only do they send canned meat to Australia, were the woods are full of meat; rice to India and sugar and rum to Jamaica, but on a recent occasion they literally sent coals to Newcastle for some war ships on the Tyne. Until very recently they used to send vast quantities of gun-fints to Quebec every year, because such gun adjuncts used 10 be shipped there a centuary ago Boston Transcript.
 The remains of cemetery belong ing to the age of the Gauls have re- gently been discovered in Paris, in the old Fambourg St. German, at the cor ner of the Rues Rocroi and Bellechase. Fifty-two tombs have been found with skeletons, most of which are skeletons of women and children. Only twelve are skeletons of men. Many weapons and implements have also been un- earthed-swords. lances, and bronze and iron instruments of all descrip- tions. .-Springfeld Republican.
 The Parsees of Bombay have long been famous for their charitable munif- icence, and the example of the late Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, known through out the civilized world for his liberali- ty, is being emulated at the present day by another Parsee, Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, sheriff of Bombay, who has just offered the Government of Bombay one and one-half lakh ($75.- OOO). for the purpose of establishing female college in that city.-M r Lp- dependent.
 Among the peoples who inhabit the region near Stanley Falls is one which has a very peculiar copper coin- age, consisting of enormous spear heads made out of very thin copper. One of these is valued as equal to two hundred English pounds worth of ivory. Every thing among them has its value reckoned in terms of copper spears. Tippoo-Tib, the rich and in- fluential Arab trader whose henchmen, not long ago, captured the Stanley Falls station, has sent one of these spears to London. This tribe manu- factures highly artistic metal york; Boston Budget.